Looking to the Light

Every day you must arise and say to your heart,

I have suffered enough and now I must live

because the light of the sun must not be wasted,

it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

- Simone Schwarz-Bart

Fresh New Year

Another fresh new year is here ...
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest ...
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!

- William Arthur Ward